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The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction. This process can create arbitrarily long words: for example, the prefixes pseudo (false, spurious) and anti (against, opposed to) can be added as ...
The Māori-language 85-letter place name Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the longest place name in English-speaking countries and second longest in the world, according to Wises New Zealand Guide and The New Zealand Herald. [61]
This page provides lists of the thickest single-volume books to date both published and unpublished. "Thickest" in this context refers to the total page count of the book. This list does not include works that span over more than one volume, such as In Search of Lost Time, which is regarded as the longest novel ever writte
The English language is vast, eclectic and a little bit complicated. ... The longest English words are often rooted in specialized fields, like medicine and literature. Of course, there are ...
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, [1] it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian ...
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...
It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written in one long sentence. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack is written as one sentence [7] It won the 2016 Goldsmith's prize for experimental fiction, was longlisted for the Booker in 2017 and won the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award.